TI: Corruption in Cambodia is a barrier to

clean foreign companies coming to invest

By The Cambodia Daily
 
February 24, 2023
 
Transparency International Cambodia (TI) official says deepening of
Cambodia's corruption in state institutions is a big barrier Do not allow clean
foreign companies to invest in Cambodia.

Transparency International Cambodia's Business and Minerals Integrity

Program Director Tong Soprach spoke at The Cambodia Daily's Idea Talk on
Tuesday night, 21 February. Corruption in Cambodia occurs in state
institutions such as the Ministry of Taxation and the judiciary, which emerges
through popular protests Victims and through a letter from the Ministry that
requires some private companies to settle tax debts to the state.

Mr. Tong Soprach claims that despite the corruption in Cambodia until the
international community ranks it in a bad position, the institution Relevant
institutions such as the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) rarely see investigative
measures in institutions where their officials are hiding money. That nation.

The senior official of Transparency International Cambodia stated that as

corruption grows and deepens in Cambodia, those who Affected by this
problem are only honest civil servants and citizens. Furthermore, crises such
as social injustice, drugs, human trafficking, and money laundering will
inevitably occur.

On January 25, 2022, Transparency International revealed that Cambodia is

ranked 157th out of 180 countries in the world. Around the world around
corruption in 2021.

In this regard, Transparency International Cambodia Executive Director Pech

Pisey has previously claimed that the government's anti-corruption strategy
has a point. The number is going well, but he said that the implementation of
the law is weak and non-transparent, while the creation of an important law
The amount needed to fight corruption is still slow.

Mr. Pech Pisey stated that in Cambodia, small-scale corruption related to the
provision of local public services is less, but for corruption The big ones
involved in the faction, the conspiracy between the powerful and the rich, is
still in serious condition.

Article 1 of the Anti-Corruption Law states that this law aims to improve the
efficiency of all services, strengthen governance and the rule of law in
Leadership and administration of the state, as well as maintaining cleanliness
and justice, which are essential for the development of society and poverty
reduction. Also.

Nevertheless, Cambodia, under the current ruling party, is seen as being led
against the purpose of the law. This is entirely due to the emergence of social
injustice, which has repeatedly been suggested by the victims that the courts
take bribes from the rich. Money and anarchic power today.

In this regard, the former president of the Cambodian Trade Union

Confederation, Mr. Rong Chhun, has previously claimed that he observed
that the legal system in Cambodia It was just an anarchic market during
which he was detained for more than a year. The allegations are unfair.